Dr. Berkenwald is a Partner and Head of the Patent Department at BERKEN IP.
He is a patent engineer specialized in the fields of chemistry, industrial chemistry and materials engineering. He's involved in patent drafting, translation, filing and prosecution of patent application of domestic and foreign clients in Argentina and Latin America. In addition, he performs prior art searches and delivers analysis and opinions on patentability.
Dr. Berkenwald graduated with honors as a Chemical Engineer from ITBA (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and as a Process and Environment Engineer from INSA Toulouse (France). Subsequently, he received a grant from CONICET and completed a PhD in Engineering at ITBA. In 2018, he obtained the CEIPI Diploma with mentions in both “Patents” and “Trademarks and Industrial Designs”.
Since 2009, Dr. Berkenwald has been an Adjunct Professor in the subjects of Transport Phenomena, Thermodynamics and Mathematical Modeling in Chemical Engineering at ITBA, also participating in research and technology transfer projects. Moreover, he has published in international high impact journals and participated in international conferences in the field of chemical reactor engineering.
Currently, he serves in AIPLA’s Chemical Practice and IP Practice in Latin America committees. He is also observer of AIPPI’s Patent Committee.
Since 2019, he has been invited by CEIPI (Strasbourg, France) to lecture on intellectual property in Argentina.

Education
-CEIPI Diploma (2018), distinctions “Patents” and “Trademarks & Industrial Designs”, University of Strasbourg, France
-Doctor of Engineering (2016), Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires, Argentina
-Process and Environment Engineer (2009), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées Toulouse, France
-Chemical Engineer (2009), Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Ranked in
-IAM Patent 1000 – The World’s Leading Patent Professionals (2021-2024)
-Managing IP – IP Star (2024)
-Leaders League (2021-2024)